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Lesson
Successful reform programs require thorough background analysis and research, extensive consultations, and strong national ownership and championship.

Project Number: 50051-001
Project Name: Improving Public Expenditure Quality Program, Subprogram 1
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A sequential, long-term approach to reforms facilitates ADB deeper engagement in country reform processes and develops greater synergy in ADB country operations.

Project Number: 50051-001
Project Name: Improving Public Expenditure Quality Program, Subprogram 1
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Adequate technical assistance (TA) is essential to enhancing reform design and implementation and accelerating the reform process.

Project Number: 50051-001
Project Name: Improving Public Expenditure Quality Program, Subprogram 1
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Assessing and clarifying the indirect economic welfare generated by the provision of public goods is essential since these are not readily evident, especially in a regional context.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Regular or periodic harmonization of policies is essential in a regional project in which a number of countries, with different levels of development, are engaged together to deliver regional public goods.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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The initial indicators for assessing the benefits can be refined during implementation to yield reliable results.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Following wider lessons learned from ADB projects, recruitment of a single specialist to support implementation and monitoring of both gender and safeguards technical areas is insufficient.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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In public health projects, it is important that the underlying results chain have adequate components to ensure the welfare of ultimate beneficiaries, and not just confined to serving the involved agencies and their stakeholders.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Capacity development for public sector officials is a long-term issue and a short-term TA, as provided in tranche 2 ,is not likely to help.

Project Number: 39538-013, 39538-035
Project Name: State-Owned Enterprises Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Lesson
Risk assessment is an important part of program initiation and requires all parties involved to assess the risks and develop meaningful mitigation strategies.

Project Number: 39538-023
Project Name: MFF–SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program—Tranche 1
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It is important to ensure that before an RRP is approved, the DMF has performance indicators that are specific and measurable, and that the data source is appropriate.

Project Number: 39538-023
Project Name: MFF–SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program—Tranche 1
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A good DMF with specific, appropriate, and measurable performance indicators is critical in an MFF program where earlier tranches provide pilots for subsequent reforms.

Project Number: 39538-013, 39538-035
Project Name: State-Owned Enterprises Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Lesson
While the EMCC program was highly relevant in pursuing wide ranging reforms across sectors, a less complex program could have facilitated deeper reform progress in a selected sector.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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Lesson
SOE reforms, and banking sector reforms in particular, are very complex and take time; therefore, it is important to have realistic targets, which demonstrate credible progress on a long-term agenda.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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Timely provision of technical and analytic support can improve program design and execution.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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